Almost 3 years to the day ago we had our post discussing new changes to the release formats: some major, some minor. Well, one of those changes we discussed was "No more 'Fix' releases" with the note of "barring some sort of major catastrophic typo ...". Well, it's been 3 years and we've had some sloppy releases, a few typos and a few issues that we haven't bothered posting fixes for but we do have one worth mentioning now...

The Final Fantasy X HD Original Soundtrack we released in the "Final Fantasy MEGA UPDATE!!" has a completely wrong track in it. This would be a good definition of "catastrophic".

Simply delete the old 1067 and replace it with the file above and that's all you have to do. If you are currently seeding the old torrent version I would stop seeding it altogether, or if your client has the ability to not seed specific files, exclude 1067. Otherwise you might end up redownloading the wrong version again~

How did this happen? Well, to make a long story short these Bluray "albums" are terribly indexed and not anything like a CD, so a 104 track album like FFX HD has something like 200+ indexes, often times with different indexes pointing to the same track. Those are all separate containers and I had to manually identify them, then name and number them.

Many thanks to Bayne for pointing this out in the comments section, apologies for the mistake! If there are any other catastrophic issues like this please feel free to leave us a comment or a message.

09/10/2012 Update: The Meiq 4 OST rip here does not have the correct cover. Please grab the one in the 9/9/12 release.

07/29/2012 Update: Battle SQ had two tracks with the wrong disc number in the file names and one track with the wrong artist. They have been corrected and you can grab the fixed files here.

We're back in there with another release.

Starting us off is the latest batch of SQ albums. Battle SQ contains rocking arrangements from artists such as Miss Modular, shibuyamicrofuture, millstones, Lemm, Stealth Boys, and YUKIYOSHI. Beer SQ also features some intoxicating arrangements from RÄFVEN, Elequest Of Tabla, Blue Moon Quartet, Drakskip, Rio Okano, Daikichi Yoshida, and others. While SQ Chips 2 is back with more great chip tune arrangements from Hige Driver, BOKKADENcI, Hidekazu Tanaka, Kplecraft, SmileR, SEXY-SYNTHESIZER, and more.

We also have the recent Crimsonshroud Original Soundtrack from the crew at Basiscape - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masaharu Iwata, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, Kimihiro Abe, and Azusa Chiba. Wrapping up this release is the anticipated Sekaiju no MeiQ 4 denshou no kyoshin Original Soundtrack from the one and only man himself, Yuzo Koshiro.

07/25/2012 Update: Two more tracks on Persona 2 had some Japanese syntax issues. They have been corrected and you can grab the fixed files here.

07/17/2012 Update: I dun goofed on the disc numbers for Persona 2. They're fixed now, but the old torrent is dead. You can grab the new one here.

Back from hiatus with another release containing 11 albums.

Kicking things off is a triology of music from the Atelier series. Atelier Ayesha ~Alchemist of the Ground of Dusk~ Original Soundtrack features the music of Daisuke Achiwa, Yu Shimoda, and Kazuki Yanagawa while the Atelier Ayesha -Alchemist of the Ground of Dusk- Vocal Album Twilight Hour contains music sung by Mutsumi Nomiyama, Saya, Haruka Shimotsuki, Chirinuruwowaka , and more. Mami Horie also returns on the Hanashirube ~Atelier Series Arrange Vocal Album Feat. Mami Horie Vol.2~ with interesting takes on tracks from the entire series.

We go straight from that to the Bare Knuckle Original Soundtrack containing music from the entire Streets of Rage series by none other than Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima. Following that is the Crackin' DJ Complete Album with music from both games composed by Hiro, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, and more. Next is the Dragon's Dogma Original Soundtrack with music from Tadayoshi Makino, Inon Zur, Rei Kondoh, Chamy Ishi and performances by the Sofia Film Orchestra and Choir.

Persona fans get hype because we have a double dose of music for you. Persona 2 Eternal Punishment. Original Soundtrack showcases classic music from Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Masaki Kurokawa, Shoji Meguro, T.KURA and new arrangements by Toshiki Konishi and Atsushi Kitajoh. Persona 4 The Golden Original Soundtrack has new music from Shoji Meguro and Atsushi Kitajoh with vocals from Shihoko Hirata.

We also have tunes from the recently released Rhythm Kaitou R Koutei Napoleon no Isan Original Soundtrack. Tomoya Ohtani, Takahito Eguchi, Naofumi Hataya, Yutaka Minobe all contribute to this. Wrapping up this release is a combo of music from recent PS3 titles. The Sorcery Original Soundtrack is composed by Mark Mancina and performed by the The Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra. While the Starhawk Original Soundtrack is composed by Christopher Lennertz and performed by the The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra.

2/29/2012 Update: Nights and I screwed up the folder name on the Alex Kidd Complete Album. It's tagged correctly, but the folder name is not. Will fix this in the next release.

Back again with a nice potpourri release. New stuff, old stuff, and lots of original music by SEGA!

First up are a bunch of albums SEGA was too lazy to provide decent credits for: Alex Kidd Complete Soundtrack, Power Drift Original Soundtrack, Rail Chase Original Soundtrack, and SEGA Motorcycle Music History. Next is the Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon Series Original Soundtrack featuring arrangements of classic Final Fantasy tunes by Yuzo Takahashi. We follow this up with the recent Gyakuten Saiban Sound Box covering the music of the first three games by Masakazu Sugimori, Akemi Kimura, and Noriyuki Iwadare. After that it's the Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning The Soundtrack with new music from Grant Kirkhope, Mark Cromer, and performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hideki Abe is back in the new Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary Original Soundtrack. In addition, we also have the Resistance 3 Original Soundtrack composed by by Boris Salchow. Super 32X 15th Anniversary Album contains music from the following 32X games: Space Harrier (Hiro), Stellar Assault (Masaru Setsumaru, Naofumi Hataya, and Teruhiko Nakagawa), Virtua Racing Deluxe (Naofumi Hataya, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, and Tomoko Sasaki), Parasquad (Naoshi Kunisawa, Masami Yitsuse), Metal Head (Teruhiko Nakagawa, Jun Senoue), and Virtua Fighter (Takayuki Nakamura, Masaru Setsumaru). Finally, we have the Vermilion vs Rent-a-Hero Original Soundtrack with even more music from Hiro.

2/11/2012 Update: Adam caught a vocal track in Wangan 4 that was missing a composer. I've updated that track along with the M3U and SFV and you can find the fixed files here. I also created a new "Updates" category on the sidebar that will help people find updates to releases we make. The archive torrents are still the best way to get all the updated and fixed files.

It's the first release of 2012! Prepare to get bodied by 14 albums including another edition of more stuff we should've released last year.

First up is the Armored Core V Original Soundtrack with music by Kota Hoshino, Yoshikazu Takayama, Tsukasa Saitoh, and Hideyuki Eto. Following that is BlazBlue in L.A. Vocal Editon with music from the original game by Daisuke Ishiwatari but now with all new vocals! Vocalists include Jamison Boaz, Greg Reynard, Dale Paris Sanchez, N.I.N.A., and Jason C. Miller. Next is the Chaos Code Original Soundtrack composed by MintJam, nekono, Kou, -45, and Cheng. Cyber Troopers ''Virtual-On'' Original Sound Track is a reprint of the original album by Kentaro Koyama with an all new arrangement from [H]. We also got more SEGA music with the Gunblade NY & L.A. Machineguns Original Soundtrack.

Motoi Sakuraba is back again with the recent Labyrinth no Kanata Original Soundtrack. Mega Drive Last Action Heroes contains music from classic games Pulseman, Virtua Racing, Ristar, plus Comix Zone and features the music of Junichi Masuda, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Tomoko Sasaki, Naofumi Hataya, and Howard Drossin. Gambling addicts will be happy to hear that Pachi-Slot biohazard Original Soundtrack is available with music from Satoshi Ise.

The SEGA music love continues with the Rad Mobile Original Soundtrack and SEGA Sound Unit [H.] 1st Album. This album from [H]. features some great arrangements from classic SEGA games After Burner, Virtual-On, Outrun, Burning Rangers, and more. We follow up that with the awesome Sonic Generations Original Soundtrack Blue Blur. Jun Senoue is back again along with Naofumi Hataya, Richard Jacques, Tomoya Ohtani, Cash Cash, and others.

Wrapping up this release is the Soulcalibur V Original Soundtrack. Andrew Aversa, Cris Velasco, Hiroki Kikuta, Inon Zur, and Tomoki Miyoshi join Junichi Nakatsuru for a fresh take on this series. We also have the Symphonic Odysseys Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu showcasing the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and WDR Rundfunkchor Köln. Finally, it's the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 Original Soundtrack with the one and only Yuzo Koshiro.

Just a quick note that going forward we will be utilizing the Album Artist tag on all of our releases. Previously we left this tag null, but after meeting with the team it was decided that this would be useful for various portable music devices and so forth. So Album Artist will equal Artist except when there is more than one. In which case the Album Artist tag gets populated to "Various Artists". In the spirit of election season, I created an unscientific poll to provide your thoughts on the sidebar. However please feel free to leave any additional feedback you have in the comments below.

#gamemp3s is happy to announce the #gamemp3s Archive Torrent 2011! This torrent contains 112 albums, weighs in at 22.5 GB, and only includes albums we released in 2011 along with any post-release updates.

In addition, I've also gone back and made some few more changes to albums we released in the past that never were updated again. Please help us all out and seed this torrent, thanks.

Akai Katana Original Sound Track

ID3v2 tags ISO updated to UTF-16.

Atelier Rorona Original Sound Track

Album renamed to Atelier Rorona ~Arland no Renkinjutsushi~ Original Sound Track. This change has been reflected in the Album tags, M3U, NFO, and SFV.

Atelier Totori Original Soundtrack

Album renamed to Atelier Totori ~Arland no Renkinjutsushi 2~ Original Soundtrack. This change has been reflected in the Album tags, M3U, NFO, and SFV.

Castlevania Lords of Shadow Soundtrack

ID3v2 tags ISO updated to UTF-16.

FINAL FANTASY IV & THE AFTER YEARS Sounds Plus

Album renamed to Final Fantasy IV & The After Years Sounds Plus. This change has been reflected in the Album tags, M3U, NFO, and SFV.

Final Fantasy Type-0 Original Soundtrack

Updated track titles and artist for tracks 317-319.

Okamiden ~Chiisaki Taiyou~ Original Soundtrack

ID3v2 tags ISO updated to UTF-16.

Shadows of the Damned Original Soundtrack

Album renamed to Shadows of the Damned. This change has been reflected in the Album tags, M3U, NFO, and SFV.

Up first is the 3D Dot Game Heroes Original Soundtrack with music from Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, Yousuke Yasui, Shoichiro Sakamoto, Teruo Taniguchi, Takahiro Eguchi, and Norihiro Hurukawa. After that we have the Ace Combat Assault Horizon Limited Edition Music Soundtrack featuring new music from Keiki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Okubo, Rio Hamamoto, and performances from the Northwest Sinfonia & Choir, Yuval Ron Ensemble, and Emi Evans. Following that is the After all album with new solo music from Motoi Sakuraba.

Next up in the new music trend is the Batman Arkham City - Original Video Game Score by Nick Arundel and Ron Fish. Manabu Namiki is also back with the Black Rock Shooter The Game Original Soundtrack and Motoi returns again with the awesome Dark Souls Original Soundtrack.

We continue with the Last Ranker Limited Soundtrack -Piano Trio Arrange- featuring the arranged music of Yoko Shimomura from one of last year's best soundtracks. Behind that is the recent Lord of Vermilion Re2 Fan Kit featuring music from Hitoshi Sakimoto and some excellent remixes of classic Square games by Ryo Yamazaki, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Keiji Kawamori, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, and Mitsuto Suzuki. You can also say hello again to one of my favorites, Michiko Naruke, who returns on the Noora to Toki no Koubou Kiri no Mori no Majo Original Soundtrack along with two vocal songs performed by Kaori Asoh.

We also have a double dose of Akira Yamaoka for his fans out there. Starting with the recent Shadows of the Damned Original Soundtrack and then the Silent Hill Sounds Box covering the entire Silent Hill series. Finally, relive your childhood all over again with the Sonic the Hedgehog 1&2 Soundtrack featuring the one and only Masato Nakamura.

3D Dot Game Heroes Original Soundtrack
Ace Combat Assault Horizon Limited Edition Music Soundtrack
After all
Batman Arkham City - Original Video Game Score
Black Rock Shooter The Game Original Soundtrack
Dark Souls Original Soundtrack
Last Ranker Limited Soundtrack -Piano Trio Arrange-
Lord of Vermilion Re2 Fan Kit
Noora to Toki no Koubou Kiri no Mori no Majo Original Soundtrack
Shadows of the Damned Original Soundtrack
Silent Hill Sounds Box
Sonic the Hedgehog 1&2 Soundtrack

11/1/2011 Update: Silent Hill aficionado Godai caught a missed credit for Mary Elizabeth McGlynn on track 312. I've updated this song, the M3U, and SFV files and you can find them here.

First up we got the Bastion Original Soundtrack written by the talented Darren Korb. Next up is the Final Fantasy Type-0 Music Collection -First Campaign-. A small taste of what's to come from Takeharu Ishimoto. After that we have the most recent NieR Tribute Album -echo-. This album contains remixes from the original by SEXY-SYNTHESIZER, RÄFVEN, sasakure.UK, Nobu44, and more!

Moving on, fighter fans get hype because we have the Street Fighter III 2nd Impact Giant Attack Original Sound Track and Street Fighter III New Generation albums. Music in the original is composed by Hideki Okugawa and Yuki Iwai while the second has arrangements from Hideki Okugawa. Special thanks to v1le for hooking us up with these.

Finally, we have the awesome We are ROCK-MEN! This album features arrangements from across the entire series of games featuring the work of Yasumasa Kitagawa and Masahiro Aoki.

First up it's the Atelier Meruru ~Arland no Renkinjutsushi 3~ Original Soundtrack with new compositions from Kazuki Yanagawa and Daisuke Achiwa with vocals by Mineko Yamamoto, mao, Chata, Mutsumi Nomiyama, and Marie. We're going to go back and add the subtitle to the last two Atelier albums so check for that later in the year. Extra special thanks to hatsumi for helping us translate this beast.

Moving on we have the L.A. Noire Official Soundtrack composed by Andrew Hale and vocal songs performed by Claudia Brucken feat. The Real Tuesday Weld. After that, it's the Ryu ga Gotoku The Best Original Sound Track with a collection of music from the entire series. Some of composers include Hidenori Shoji, Yuri Fukuda, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, and more.

Next, we have the Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves Soundtrack CD with music from Peter McConnell. Following that, it's The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings Official Game Soundtrack featuring music by Adam Skorupa and Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz. Finally, it's the Virtua Fighter 5 Original Sound Track. No composer breakdown on this so blame Sega as usual.

Edit: 7 tracks on Meruru had hypens when they should've had tildes. I've corrected this and you can find the fixed files here.